Priscilla Lui

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Priscilla Lui, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Advising: Accepting new graduate students in 2025-2026.
Interests: Minority mental health; addiction; health disparities; diversity science

Research

My research concerns how people from diverse sociocultural backgrounds make sense of the world, and how their lived experiences associated with culture, ethnicity, race, and racism affect their psychopathology and addictive behaviors. I am interested in measurement development and psychometrics, and metascience (i.e., research about the research process). The goal of this research program is to inform culture-centered interventions that are effective in alleviating distress and improving psychological functioning among people from diverse ethnocultural backgrounds.

Education

Purdue University (2016)

  • Cultural and Individual Diversity: Principles and Best Practices in Research and Applications
  • Research Strategies in Clinical Psychology
  • Psychology of Culture, Ethnicity, and Race

  • Lui, P. P. & Kamata, A. (2024). Harmonizing assessments of everyday racial discrimination experiences: The Multigroup Everyday Racial Discrimination Scale (MERDS). Assessment, 31(2), 397-417.
  • Lui, P. P., Gobrial, S., Stringer, E., & Jouriles, E. N. (2023). Effects of racial discrimination on stress, negative emotions, and alcohol craving: A registered report of a virtual reality experiment. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology.
  • Lui, P. P., Stringer, E., & Jouriles, E. N. (2023). Advancing knowledge on the health consequences of discrimination: The potential of virtual reality. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 29(1), 96-105.
  • Lui, P. P., Gobrial, S., Pham, S., Adams, N., Giadolor, W., & Rollock, D. (2022). Open science and multicultural research: Some data, considerations, and recommendations. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 28(4), 567-586.
  • Lui, P. P., Tsong, Y., Pham, S., Ramadan, B., Quezada, L., Del Rio, M., & Zamboanga, B. L. (2021). Explaining the alcohol immigrant paradox: Perspectives from Mexican American adults. Journal of Latinx Psychology, 9(2), 109–124.
  • Lui, P. P. & Quezada, L. (2019). Associations between microaggression and adjustment outcomes: A meta-analytic and narrative review. Psychological Bulletin, 145, 45-78. doi:10.1037/bul0000172
  • Lui, P. P. (2019). College alcohol beliefs: Measurement invariance, mean differences, and correlations with alcohol use outcomes across sociodemographic groups. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 66, 487-495. doi:10.1037/cou0000338
  • Lui, P. P. (2019). Rethinking the acculturation gap-distress theory among Asian American emerging adults: Testing the bidirectional indirect effects. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 89, 627-639. doi:10.1037/ort0000322
  • Lui, P. P. (2015). Intergenerational cultural conflict, mental health, and educational outcomes among Asian and Latino/a Americans: Qualitative and meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin, 141, 404-446. doi:10.1037/a0038449